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Manage Windows Vista's Integrity Levels with chml utility

Windows Vista includes a new notion of what were originally called "Mandatory Integrity Controls" but eventually became "Windows Integrity Levels." Under WIL, every object that have permission can also have a label that identifies its "integrity level." Files and folders have integrity levels, as do users and processes. It is, thus, a sort of set of […]

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Windows Vista includes a new notion of what were originally called "Mandatory Integrity Controls" but eventually became "Windows Integrity Levels." Under WIL, every object that have permission can also have a label that identifies its "integrity level." Files and folders have integrity levels, as do users and processes. It is, thus, a sort of set of uber-permissions, albeit a simple one.

You can use chml "right out of the box" to view a file or folder's integrity level just by typing chml fileorfolder, as in

C:\>chml \windows\notepad.exe

But if you want to modify an object's integrity level, then you'll need to give your user account a new-to-Vista permission, "Modify an object label." You can find that in the "User Rights" part of Group Policy on a Vista machine. Or, in a few more words:

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